1/24/09

Shoplifting from American Apparel (Sept. 2009) promotional post part three

The cover has arrived. It has a special feature courtesy of IBM, with help from Intel and Sun Microsystems.

If you push my name on the cover of the physical book you will be transported to a concrete version of my Wikipedia page. There you may walk around and touch my accomplishments, feeling for contour and texture, while not denying color and composition. Because of this feature the book costs $13,000,000 and will have a small print run. I think six will be available, four of them beta.

One review copy, albeit with limited capabilities, will be made and sent to Bookforum, as per my request (thanks again Dennis).

If you order from Amazon I think Melville House will receive between $3000 and $5,000 whereas if you order from Melville House Melville House will receive in excess of $3,500,000, I think. Thank you IBM (and to lesser extents Intel and Sun Microsystems), I'm really excited.
Goodreads page.

Facebook group.

Previous promotional posts: one, two.
"'Another "'fucking' 'retarded'" blog post,'" I thought in a vague, low-level manner while typing and editing this blog post; then with clarity (and a certain sense of accomplishment actually) upon the blog post's completion.

9 Comments:

Blogger ken baumann said...

I think this post is funny and informative.

My stock in Sun and IBM will rise, exponentially.

4:33 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i'm glad i helped you financially ken

i feel unsure if the last sentence of this blog post is readable or not, like if it makes sense at all

it might not be readable or something

the grammar seems 'precarious'

is it a readable sentence, not sure

4:45 PM  
Blogger Wells said...

Thanks to the advertisements your blog now has boobies on it. How does this affect your mood and outlook?

5:35 PM  
Blogger mi said...

yes, makes sense.

good.

5:36 PM  
Blogger dottie kee bones said...

i was completely able to read the last sentence.

(i love this post)

9:27 PM  
Blogger James said...

i was confused by the quotes and semi-colon, i think, but not any of the grammar, i don't think.

i like how you are a PC-user, tao.

12:53 AM  
Blogger John said...

A concrete Wikipedia page turned life would be phenomenal, especially if that could apply to all Wikipedia pages except...wait, that's reality!

2:22 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

there are quotes around 'another fucking retarded blog post,' 'fucking retarded,' 'fucking,' and 'retarded'

they convey certain things about how i feel about me using those words and phrases

i own a macbook

4:57 AM  
Blogger James said...

it's clear to me now, thank you

i don't like how you're not a PC-user, tao

8:30 AM  

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